Hello SimplyScripts!  I am looking for a short script.

Here is the deal: we are shooting a webseries inspired by Lars Von Trier's "Five Obstructions," in which our group of filmmakers challenges each other to make films with various restrictions imposed on the process.  The first challenge was to me, and was to write and shoot a feature film in a weekend with no pre-planning.  We shot the film and also extensively covered behind the scenes for the webseries.

Our next challenge is to director Mike Russell, who was our cinematographer on Truth.  His challenge is a two-parter:

1.  He may not look at the monitor, camera, or any other manifestation of the frame, at any point during production.

2.  He may not at any point in the film show the protagonist's head or face.
     2a.  His protagonist may not wear anything on his or her head which obscures the head or face, which is intended in normal use to be worn on the human head.

So!

What I am looking for is suggestions for short scripts, low budget, preferably more indie/less genre.  NO sci-fi, as our first feature is sci-fi, NO gory horror, and NO silly/genre/skit comedy.  So, y'know, something indie.  Drama, feel-good, romance, something like that.  Multiple locations and larger casts are welcome, within reason.  

Preferably, the script will make the challenge as difficult as possible (for example, a script about getting a zit before prom would be hilarious, since we can't see the kid's face).

There's no money involved up-front in this project.  You of course get full credit for the script and we won't be adding a co-writer or any of that bullshit -- the main idea here is collaboration of artists and we want everyone to get the most possible out of this.  If you're interested, it would also be fun (but not essential) to feature you in the webseries by Skype interview.

For our previous work you can check out our horror feature at http://www.truththefilm.com.  

I look forward to questions and script suggestions!

Cheers,

Chris

If you didn't want to show the antagonist then I could recommend a bunch of scripts.  Not showing the protagonist is going to be a lot tougher.  

At the moment the only way I could think of where you could reasonably get away with not showing the protagonists head or face would be if the protag didn't have a head or face. That reminds me of a really great little short I saw about the life of a plastic grocery bag narrated by Werner Herzog.

  

If I come up with anything else, I'll let you know.

Thanks Michael!

To clarify, I don't want a script that makes it easy to not show the protagonist's face...just the opposite, in fact.  I want this to be as difficult as possible.  Part of the challenge is that I get to choose the script for the director, and I want it to be hard -- we are trying to challenge each other, after all!

Still,  I would think you would want there to be a reason the protags face isn't shown.  You don't want the conceit just for the conceit's sake in the final film.  you would want it to mean something, right?  So, whatever script it is should have some underlying reason the protags face would not be shown - like shame or something like that.    

EDIT:  If you don't need a script right this minute - why not check with Don and see if he minds scheduling an OWC for this?  It's the perfect sort of challenge for one.  

No particular script but all these found fottage scripts could provide something like that with the protag behind the camera.

Thanks Bill.

Again, I am NOT looking for a script that specifically makes this challenge easy, so, I am NOT looking for a script in which it makes sense to not see the protagonist's face.

I am looking for ANY low-budget short scripts of the type I have described above.  ANY scripts that aren't too intensely genre.  I only mention the constraints that will be placed on the director to give everyone a sense of what we're doing.

Michael, thanks for the suggestion of the OWC!  That's a cool idea, but I don't think it should be necessary.  I'm just looking for some existing scripts that are solid, not too expensive, and not too genre.